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Compusoft Group, a leading global visual CPQ provider and portfolio company of TA Associates, has acquired InnovaItalia, the Pesaro, Italy-based distributor of Compusoft’s 3CAD software in Russia and neighbouring countries. The acquisition of InnovaItalia is a natural extension of Compusoft’s furniture business unit and will expand their presence into new geographies, as well as broaden their strong customer base. Direct access to this market will open up further opportunities in a growing vCPQ market in Russia and provide Compusoft with a solid base for expansion. David Tombre, CEO, Compusoft says: “InnovaItalia have forged an excellent reputation and business in Russia
VenueScanner, a UK-based online venue booking platform, has secured a USD1.5 million in a funding round led by Rianta Capital and ACF Investors. Launched to enable individuals, businesses and event organisers to find better and more affordable venues, it is helping undiscovered and independent venues reimagine how they use their space and fill their downtime.   Rebecca Kelly, founder and CEO of VenueScanner, says: “While the last year has taught us that we don’t need to be sitting next to each other to get our work done, it has also taught us how important it is to be together to
Valmet has entered into agreements to acquire EWK Umwelttechnik, a German company manufacturing and supplying air emission control systems and after-installation services, and ECP Group, a Finnish manufacturer and maintainer of air emission control systems.  These acquisitions complement Valmet’s customer offering in environmental technologies and related services.   The values of the acquisitions, which are expected to close in July 2021, have not been disclosed. After the acquisitions are completed, Valmet’s Environmental Systems offering covers technologies and services for wet and dry flue gas cleaning, flue gas desulfurisation, NOx reduction and burner systems for energy and process industries, and marine
An affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners is to acquire the tyre additives business of Eastman Chemical Company (Eastman).
Cleo Communications, a global provider of ecosystem integration software solutions, has secured a significant investment from an affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG). Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.  Headquartered in Rockford, Illinois, Cleo is an ecosystem integration SaaS platform company that modernises the movement and integration of B2B enterprise data. The Cleo Integration Cloud platform provides more than 4,000 customers worldwide with strategic supply chain visibility into revenue-critical end-to-end business processes across the ecosystems of partners and customers, marketplaces, and customers’ internal applications. Cleo’s solutions drive business agility, accelerate partner onboarding, automate key business processes, and capture new
HCAP Partners, a California-based private equity firm and impact investor, has made a follow-on investment in TCS Healthcare Technologies, a provider of managed care software solutions.  The funding will support the acquisition of DataSmart Solutions, LLC, a predictive risk analytics software company. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed. TCS software solutions are designed to support the needs of health plans, TPAs, ACOs, and other risk-bearing organisations by optimising clinical outcomes, maintaining compliance, and improving financial and operational excellence. The acquisition of DataSmart accelerates the company’s product development roadmap for the ACUITYnxt SaaS platform, a comprehensive suite of utilisation
Digital business insurance platform Embrokern has secured USD100 million in a Series C funding round was led by FTV Capital with additional investment from HSCM Bermuda and Gaingels and follow on from Tola Capital, Canaan Partners, Bee Partners, and MassMutual Ventures.  Embroker plans to utilise the new funding to expand the company into a full-stack insurtech by building its own insurance carrier.   “For Embroker to truly forge a new approach to business insurance, we need to reimagine and rebuild every part of the process,” says Matt Miller, Embroker CEO. “Even as some of the surface-level elements of insurance have
Extreme Reach today announces the close of its acquisition of Adstream, creating an independent global platform that connects the end-to-end creative supply chain for marketers.  The combined company answers the call from brand marketers who recognise the benefits and rich data that can only come from one central asset management and campaign workflow hub for all teams, across all regions.   The fragmentation of the media landscape has led to an explosion in the number of creative assets being produced and an exponential increase in the number of teams and individuals working together to create, prepare and deploy them across
9 Basil, the strategic Southeast Asian private equity counterpart to investment firm, Blueprint Forest (BPF), is to support Alpha Capital to form the largest independent asset management company (AMC) in Thailand. 9 Basil, which first acquired its stake in Alpha Capital in 2019, is an independent funds management business with a Southeast Asian private equity platform that places a unique emphasis on Thailand. 9 Basil is focused on private markets and boasts an active portfolio management strategy to derive synergies between the managing partners, limited partners and BPF’s wider network.   Following the role that 9 Basil played in the
London-based fintech LemonEdge (formerly LemonTree Software), has secured funding of USD2.5 million in a heavily oversubscribed fundraising round led by Sidekick Partners, a venture firm with deep ties to the North American private equity industry. Sidekick Partners is joined in this round by investors Tikhon Bernstam, founder of Parse and Scribd, and Lauren Iaslovits, founder of Investran and a pioneer of private capital market technologies.   LemonEdge enables firms in the private equity and financial services industries to digitise complex accounting, many of whom still run on old, ‘insecure’ legacy systems or spreadsheets. The Global Financial Services Application Software Market

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